Team:Weimar-Heidelberg Arts

Project Abstract

Super Cell is a fictional supermarket website offering speculative products related to Synthetic Biology and our project for iGEM 2010. Our goal is to make possible everyday applications and implications tangible by translating them into products that could fill the supermarket shelfs. Through this we hope to foster a discussion about Synthetic Biology that includes different scientific disciplines as well as the general public. read more...

Synthetic Biology Supermarket

Super Cell comes as a supermarket website, offering around 20 products which are all designed by our iGEM team. The products range from very believable applications to more speculative and ethically or culturally challenging. Have a look...<\a>

The Project is a collaboration between students of Gestaltung medialer Umgebungen at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar and students of Molecular Biotechnology, Biology, Philosophy and Psychology of Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg. Our products are developed in collaboration between science students from Heidelberg and Art and Design students from Weimar. See how we got along...